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Dagger Thrust. Each age must measure its knowledge of war, its concept of force against the Iliad, and that is one reason the poem has been translated and retranslated, from Alexander Pope's resounding version in 1720 to Richmond Lattimore's literal yet poetic rendering of 1951. In Pope, for instance, dactylic hexameters were given their royally cadenced English equivalent to which Homeric heroes stepped rather like late-Renaissance princes. Robert Fitzgerald, Harvard's Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory and a poet (Spring Shade, 1971) in his own right, has cut back on the pomp without...
Following Orders. Four months ago, an administrative decision from Rome signaled the end of the parish's freewheeling days: the Holy See had carved a new diocese of Arlington out of the remote Richmond diocese, whose bishop, Walter Sullivan, had shown no interest in taming the maverick parish...
...foot dragging on impeachment. The Roanoke Times reports that letters are running about 3 to 2 against Butler, but the mail flow is very light. Most important, Butler had the foresight to prepare his constituents for the impeachment process. Says Charles McDowell, Washington correspondent and columnist for the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "He's spent a lot of time teaching his district the majesty of the thing and bringing his people along." Though political observers feel that disenchanted Nixonites will stay at home in November, nobody thinks he is in real trouble...
...court's unanimity began to crack with split votes in 1972 on attempts to re-juggle school-district boundaries. The first hint that the balance might decisively tip came last year. By a 4-to-4 vote, the court rejected an appeals court's plan to join Richmond with two suburban school systems for purposes of desegregation; because the vote was a tie, it established no clear precedent...
Justice Powell, a former chairman of the Richmond school board, withdrew from that case. His vote in the Detroit decision last week effectively broke the pattern of steadily expanding antisegregation efforts that the court had woven in decisions over the past 20 years...